[michaelchisari]

Your link isn't even about NASA, it's just an ideological discussion (and not a particularly coherent one). For reference, here's a list of NASA spin-offs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off

It's not hard to see the multiplier effect of our investment in NASA.

[rbanffy]

Like I said in another related post, the Ludwig von Mises Institute is not the place you go for coherent discussions. The sooner we drop it as a source of discussion arguments, the better.

[hugh3]

The 9x return is nonetheless unsourced and likely to be the results of some fuzzy accounting.